Tech

Irish start-up Toyo has raised a $4.3m seed round from Frontline Ventures, iNovia Capital, Tiny Supercomputer and angels from Amazon, Microsoft and Cloudflare, to build what it says is ‘OpenClaw for founders’. Read more: Kildare-based Toyo AI raises $4.3m seed round to build ‘OpenClaw for founders’

The DPC inquiry wants to find out whether X complied with GDPR. Read more: Ireland investigates X over Grok AI ‘nudification’ debacle

Founded in 2021, MEA deploys AI for insurance underwriting, claims, and finance-related needs. Read more: Scottish Equity Partners invests $50m in UK AI insurtech MEA

You might assume that moving into a leadership position means that you already have the skills you need to succeed, but everyone benefits from a long-term learning strategy. Read more: Top skills to perfect in advance of a leadership role

Qwen3.5 is 60pc cheaper to use and eight times better at processing large workloads, the company said. Read more: Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 with visual agentic abilities

Dr Vivek Soundararajan of the University of Bath discusses how learning and training is changing for future employees in the wake of AI advancement. Read more: Is AI signalling the end of ‘learning on the job’ for young people?

‘ByteDance’s virtual smash-and-grab of Disney’s IP is wilful, pervasive and totally unacceptable,’ Disney’s cease and desist letter read. Read more: Bytedance commits to change after legal threat from Disney

Munich-based Sitegeist wants to address Europe’s backlog of broken concrete architecture. Read more: German start-up Sitegeist raises €4m for construction site robots